Making Concrete Marble Sculpture // Start to Finish // Vane Street Feather // Public Art Chicago CSE

From a small scale model to a large scale public art sculpture...watch how steel framing, foam fill and applied concrete and recycled marble aggregate create the sculpture "Vane - A Street Art Feather." After receiving a 2021 Illinois Arts Council grant for her Modern Athena sculpture, Jyl Bonaguro was able to convert her stone carving studio into a zero waste environment that recycles all carving rubble into casting material. This is her first attempt at a large scale sculpture using recycled marble and concrete for a public art sculpture in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, IL USA. The large scale feather shape of Vane references both vanity and weather vanes. Our vanity often desires to point in the right direction, but more often than not, is simply a feather twisting in the wind. Vane, A Street Feather, 2023 7.5h x 5.5w x 2.5d feet recycled marble aggregate, steel and concrete Sculptor Jyl Bonaguro with the support of Shencheng Xu for steel welding, Quinn Auerbach for concrete application, Mike Vasquez for transport, and Terry Karpowicz and Ted Sitting Crow Garner for installation. Special thanks to CSE Chicago Sculpture Exhibit and to the Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce for the opportunity. Jyl Bonaguro is a sculptor and playwright https://jylbonaguro.com/ #concretesculpture #streetart #sculpture #marblesculpture #recycledmaterials #recycledart #feathers #feather #vane #streetfeather #sculptor #scultura #publicart #howto #jyl #jylbonaguro